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UNI Europa welcomed the European Week of Sport http://ec.europa.eu/sport/week/ which has aimed to promote sport and physical activity across Europe, focusing on grassroots initiatives to inspire Europeans to #BeActive on a regular basis and create opportunities in peoples’ everyday lives to exercise more.

Physical activity is indispensable for health and well-being, but in a broader context also to ensure reliable workers in Europe – it benefits our society and economy as a whole. Promoting workers’ wellbeing can help decrease spending on health care, enhance productivity in the workplace and strengthen employability.

UNI Europa agrees with the European Commission’s call to increase participation in sport and physical activity which are stagnating or even declining throughout the EU. With an increasing active leisure sector (and a thus increasing workforce here), it is however important to point out the need to ensure quality employment, promote fair remuneration and eliminate precarious employment relationships that are still prevalent in the sector.